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those things, you're somebody who needs to change what you're doing. You've been following the dispute between the Trump administration and Harvard. Harvard was too woke and too racist. Now Harvard watched what happened when Columbia, was it Columbia? Yeah. Columbia just settled for 200 million plus. And now Harvard is indicating it might be willing to settle up with the administration for as muc…

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e again, I am impressed at how President Trump can monetize his problems. Not only will the universities ideally address their racism, but they will also pay a bunch of money into the Treasury so that Trump can lower the deficit. I just love that. No other president has really ever tried to monetize all of his biggest problems, but Trump is doing it one after another. And every time he does it, you kind of fail to notice that it's part of a pattern that he's just monetizing everything. It's very impressive.

You want to be frightened about something, you should be. Sam Altman warns, I think he was on Theo Vonn's podcast, and he warns that ChatGPT remembers its conversations with you. It also remembers what you've asked it about. So if ever there were some kind of lawsuit in which it became necessary to find out what you've been saying and thinking lately, they could, with a warrant, access all of your questions to AI.

How many people do you think have contemplated breaking the law and asked AI how to do it effectively and get away with it? I don't know how many, but I'm guessing a lot of people. I'm guessing that a lot of people have asked AI how to get away with a crime. A lot of people at the very least, you know, how to hide your tax money illegally or how to do something illegally.

I'm proud to say that I knew that was a risk from the start. And so I do not use Google search engines to look for anything that I wouldn't want the entire world to know about. You should adopt that standard. Let me say it again. Don't use a search engine or AI to look for anything, anything at all that you wouldn't want the whole world to see publicly because the odds of them someday see

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ing it publicly are not very bad. There's a good chance they will. So follow that advice. You may have noticed that the whole Russia hoax collusion story should be the biggest story in America because now even more than we already knew, we know that, I think we know it. I feel like the information is sufficient at this point for me to call it a fact. It's a fact that Obama and Brennan and Clapper…

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